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He said: 'I was amazed by what I saw coming toward me. It was sheer lunacy. The area they had cleared appeared to be the size of a small plate at best.

'The thick cover of snow around this tiny hole also remained on the roof and covered the entire rear of the car.

'You can only hope he or she got to wherever they were going without hurting someone.'

Luke Bosdet, spokesman for the AA, said: 'There is absolutely no excuse. It is pure laziness and stupidity.

'It is difficult to even begin to imagine how they thought their car was safe to drive in this condition.

'The tragedy is, it is not the first case of its kind this winter.'A still image of the car and the footage has been given to Leicestershire Police.

A force spokeswoman said: 'If this is genuine it could amount to dangerous driving - and worse if someone was injured.'

The footage emerged as it was revealed that the last 31 days look
set to be the coldest March since 1962 and the fourth-coldest since records began in 1910.

Average temperatures between March 1
and 26 were just 2.5C (36.5F), three degrees below the long term
average, the Met Office said.

Hardy souls: Beth Callaghan and Sean Gillingham, both from Birmingham, were determined to enjoy a taste of summer over the weekend even if it did mean frolicking in the snow in their swimwear

Wall of snow: Joggers take a route alongside large snow drifts which still remain on the roads near Holme Moss on the edge of the Peak District National Park

Change of the season: Joggers take a route alongside large snow drifts which still remain on the roads near Holme Moss

Perilous peaks: Snow covers Pen-Y-Fan on Easter Day in Brecon, Wales, which experienced its third-coldest March on record

Looking at individual countries, the
Met Office said March would be the fourth coldest on record for England,
joint third coldest for Wales, joint eighth coldest for Scotland and
sixth coldest for Northern Ireland.

Temperatures
have varied wildly - on March 11 it plummeted to minus 12.9C (8.8F) at
Kinbrace in the Highlands and Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, while on March 5
thermometers reached 17.5C (63.5F) at Trawsgoed in Ceredigion, west
Wales.

Average
maximum temperatures for the month ranged from 8.3C (46.9F) in the Isles
of Scilly to 2.7C (36.9F) in North and West Yorkshire, while minimum
temperatures ranged from 5.4C (41.7F) at the Isles of Scilly to minus
3.4C (25.9F) at Braemar.

The
bank holiday weekend was yesterday confirmed as the coldest Easter
since records began in 1960, with temperatures dipping well below
freezing.

Chilly: Walkers look at a wall of icicles in County Durham while on an Easter Sunday walk during the unseasonably cold Easter weekend

Skiers hit the slopes in Yad Moss, in Cumbria, where the snow settled over the Easter weekend

HERO SURFER RESCUES KAYAKER 'MINUTES FROM DEATH' IN SEA

A surfer was hailed a hero today for rescuing a capsized kayaker from icy seas off the Gower coastline in Wales.

Steve Lewis, 27, was on his surfboard when he spotted the man who was in the water and unable to climb back into his canoe.

Coastguards said the man was already 'minutes from death' when they received several 999 calls from worried people on the beach who could him in difficulty.

His only hope was Steve who paddled over on his surfboard and guide the man ashore where a helicopter was waiting to take him to hospital.

The drama happened at 1.45pm at Llangennith, near Swansea.

Coastguard spokesman Steve Jones said: 'Steve did a great job - he went out on his won and brought the Kayaker back to the shore.

'It was difficult because of the cold conditions and an offshore wind.

'The kayaker was hypothermic and in and out of consciousness - he was minutes from death.'

On Saturday, overnight temperatures
plummeted to -12.5C (9.5F) in Braemar, Scotland, eclipsing the previous
record of -9.8C (14.4F) on Easter Monday in 1986.

According
to the book Daily Temperature Extremes for Britain, the previous low
for March 31 was -10C (14F) at Balmoral in Aberdeenshire, in 1941.

The
unseasonable temperatures came as the Met Office confirmed March is on
course to be colder than winter this year for the first time since 1975.

The monthly average temperature until
March 26 was 2.5C (36.5), colder than December at 3.8C (38.8F), January
at 3.3C (37.9F), and February at 2.8C (37F).

The
average March temperature in the Central Region used by forecasters –
the area bordered by London, Manchester and Bristol – is currently 3.2C
(37.8F).

If this figure stays the same it will be the coldest March since 1962.

Greg Dewhurst, from the Met Office, said: ‘It looks like it could be the coldest temperature experienced over the Easter period.

‘It is likely to be the coldest March since 1962.

Great Easter gridlock: Traffic queues as far as the eye can see along the A14 near Cambridge

Blocked artery: The A14 started clogging up from mid-morning as the grey skies prompted families to headed home from the Suffolk and Norfolk coasts

‘At
the moment there is no sign of the weather getting warmer as by the
end of the week temperatures still remain low with a maximum of about 8C
(46.4F) in some places by Friday.’

The
chill is in stark contrast to the same time last year when Britain
enjoyed a mini heatwave, with temperatures in March soaring to 21C
(69.8F).

Bookmaker Ladbrokes
paid out more than £250,000 to gamblers who correctly predicted a white
Easter after snow fell in the Hackney and Croydon areas of London on
Saturday.

Making the best of itL Mollie Cockerill, four, and Alex, nine, from Rochdale, play on Blackpool Beach

Cold coast: Walkers wrap up warm and brave the freezing weather at the Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall

Coastguards are warning holidaymakers to beware of incoming tides after six people had to be rescued in Cornwall during the evening on Easter Sunday

Forecasters also predicted the bitterly cold weather would continue into today.

They
advised people to wrap up warm as a 15mph south-easterly wind is
expected to make temperatures feel as low as -2C (28.4F) in some places.

Sleet
and snow showers are predicted in southern parts of the UK, most likely
in Kent and East Anglia, but the rest of the country is set to be dry
with sunny spells, with maximum temperatures of 7C (44.6F).

Tonight temperatures could dip to as low as -10C (14F) in Scotland, and as low as -2C (28.4F) elsewhere in the UK.

It is predicted the below-average temperatures will remain until mid-April.

In need of something warmer: Walkers make their way past a deserted ice cream kiosk at Southsea beach

Braving the elements: A windswept family stroll along the beach at Southsea determined to enjoy their Bank Holiday whatever the weather

Wrapping up warm: A lone walker braves the cold at the Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall

Water way to spend the day: Families wrapped up warm to go punting today as Brits were faced with freezing Bank Holiday temperatures to round off the coldest Easter in 100 years

Meanwhile, Easter Sunday came with an
added surprise for staff at one farm centre when Gloria the sheep gave
birth to a five-legged lamb.

The latest addition, named Quinto, to
the Whitehouse Farm Centre in Morpeth in Northumberland is fast
becoming an attraction at the visitor centre, which features farm
animals and also llamas, bearded dragons, wallabies and meerkats amongst
others.

Heather Hogarth, a manager at
Whitehouse Farm, said: 'We knew Gloria was expecting triplets, and
earlier in the day, someone had put their hand in and said they thought
they could feel three back legs.

'We just thought it was one of the
front legs in an awkward position. When she came out, she had three
legs. It was quite a shock!'

25% extra free! Five-year-old Georgia Hudson with Quinto the lamb who was born on Easter Sunday with five legs at White House Farm in Northumberland

Lamb chop? A vet will decide over the next week whether to amputate Quinto's extra hind leg

A heat lamp keeps two one-day old lambs warm as their mother looks at Gwndwnwal Farm in Brecon, Wales

Farmer Dai Brute shouts to his sheep dogs from his quad bike as he feeds sheep in one of his fields at Gwndwnwal Farm in Brecon, Wales

Tough times: The recent cold snap has meant that farmers have had to continue feeding their sheep long into the period when they would normally be able to survive on grass in the more mild weather

Woolly warmer: Sheep farmer Sally Howe with a newborn lamb at her farm in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

NOW THAT'S A EWE-TURN! CAMERON WADES INTO SWAMP TO SAVE SHEEP

David Cameron performed a ewe turn by wading in to a swamp to rescue a stranded sheep after a day helping a neighbour with lambing in his rural Oxfordshire constituency, he told visitors to Number 10.

'Well, I helped my neighbour with his lambing one weekend and that gave me more pleasure than anything I've done for a long time,' he said after being asked what he would do after politics.

'He lost one of his ewes and so we were bottle-feeding some of his lambs and then one of his sheep got stuck in a swamp,' he told one of the winners of the Mum of the Year awards.

The sheep had followed her two lambs in to try to save them, but they drowned.

Mr Cameron and his two armed guards waded in waist-deep to push the ewe to safety.

The ewe has been renamed Swampy and is said to be fully recovered.

Farmer Julian Tustian told the Daily Telegraph: 'He was brilliant, pulling, pushing and shoving. He was covered in mud, he looked a mess. He didn't have to do it.'

The cold snap has led to a
shortage of daffodils, which are four weeks late in flowering, and has
also taken a devastating toll on wildlife.

Last week it was feared thousands of
newborn lambs had starved or been buried in snow drifts and thousands of
puffins are expected to die of starvation, unable to find food in the
rough seas.

Hundreds of frozen and emaciated
corpses have already been washed up on the east coast.

The birds, which
are on an RSPB watch list because of declining numbers, usually come
ashore to breed at this time of year.

But the prolonged cold weather has made this a fatal move, with experts describing the death toll as the worst in 50 years.

Hedgehogs,
grass snakes and slow-worms are also struggling to survive as they
emerge from hibernation to find the weather unseasonably cold.

Last
night rescue teams searching for a missing skier who was killed by an
avalanche in the Scottish Highlands revealed they had found his body.

Daniel
Maddox, 41, from Clackmannanshire, was skiing in an off-piste area
behind Glencoe Ski Centre when the avalanche struck at about 1pm
yesterday.

÷ An entire
troupe of performing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing
temperatures in Germany.

Flea circus director Robert Birk found all of
his 300 fleas dead inside their transport box last Wednesday morning.

An insect expert was able to train 50 more in time for yesterday’s show at an open-air fair in the town of Mechernich-Kommern.

Organiser Michael Faber said: ‘I hope we’ll get through this without any more fatalities.’